Pittsburgh's entrenchment with cybersecurity helped pull the city out of economic doom, but with too much outside competition, some in the industry say they can’t find the talent to meet the demand.
If you haven't already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Following up on our 'Bootstrapping Using Services' and 'Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later' case studies, here is the story of PhishMe, a cyber security company that has scaled nicely. Following my conversation with Co-founder Rohyt Belani in 2015, PhishMe was acquired by BlackRock in 2018. Sramana Mitra: Let's start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Rohyt Belani: I am originally from India. I was born and raised in India. I was there till the age of 22. I did my engineering in India. Sramana Mitra: Where in India are you from? Rohyt Belani: Bombay. I came to the US to pursue my graduate studies at Carnegie-Mellon back in 2000. Sramana Mitra: What were you working on at Carnegie-Mellon? Rohyt Belani: I went to an institute called the Information